Bangalore

Saturday 02/02/2013 and Sunday 03/02/2013 - BANGALORE (also known as Bengaluru)

Along the streets.

Nice uniform!

Industrial and Technological Museum.

Science museum, where the time stopped in the year 2000.

Believe me, it works!

Many visitors in this amazing museum,

all very intersted and actively participating to the experiments.

The Wimhurst machine and Leyden jars,

didn't encounter this type of stuff any more since college!

Tipu Sultan's Palace.

 Tipu Sultan's Palace.

 Tipu Sultan's Palace, teak pillars

Along the road.

Funny guy selling completely unuseful stuff to tourists, with success!

Lalbagh Botanical Gardens.

The Botanical Gardens.

Bangalore is a town full of chaos, parks and cricket grounds...
The botanical gardens take nearly 100 acres!

Bull Temple and Dodda Ganesha Temple.

The entrance gate for the Big Bull temple (Nandi), the Ganesh and Shiva temple complex.

Nandi's temple.

Decorated Nandi.

Around Bangalore (Sunday 3/2).

Shravanabelagola.

A Jain pelgrimage center with a colosal 18m tall monolithic statue of Gomateshwara, dating from the 10th century.  Shravanabelagola is located 160km from Bangalore.

 Looking backwards, halfway the climb of 600 steps to the top of Mt Vindhyagiri.

 Odegal Basti.
The first temple when approaching the top of the hill.

 Donation please, gold and silver also welcome.

Gomateshwara statue

 Some funny wall stones.

More funny wall stones

Bahubali Colossus.

For some people it was easier to reach the top.

Along the road.

1 driver + over 14 passengers.

Belur.

Channakeshava Temple.

 All of these pieces are build from one single rock stone.
It took three generations to build the temple (after having build for twenty years a prototype).

Dancer admiring her face in a mirror.

Love is blind.

Halebid.
Hoysaleswara Hindu Temple.

Along the road.

 Typical landscape along the road (picture made through the bus window).

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